Politics Daily Correspondent Luisita Lopez Torregrosa will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University on Tuesday, Nov. 9, to speak on immigration and the elections as part of the school’s Leaders in Communications lecture series. Click here for more information. This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org [...]
In a recorded video address posted Thursday night on the White House blog, President Obama spoke to the recent suicides of several gay youth, victims of peer harassment and bullying. Saying the deaths “shocked and saddened” him and that teen suicide “breaks my heart,” the president called upon all Americans to be more vigilant about [...]
In a 30-minute interview with Matt Lauer of NBC’s “Today” show, President Obama made the case for nationwide public education reform, defending his administration’s “Race to the Top” program, addressing charter takeovers of low-performing schools, and advocating for better teacher pay and benefits. He also announced a new goal of recruiting 10,000 science and math [...]
From Sharon Otterman at City Room: Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone is having a good month — and the people at Goldman Sachs are making it even better. Mr. Canada’s organization, one of the best-known charter school operators in the nation, said Thursday that it just received a $20 million contribution from Goldman [...]
On Friday morning, I wrote about Rush Limbaugh having gone to high school with controversial Pastor Terry Jones yet not mentioning it when discussing the story on his radio show. Friday afternoon, Limbaugh took to the airwaves to explain:My high school was like 2,000 people. Do you remember everybody in it? Look, if this guy’s [...]
Terry Jones, the Florida pastor threatening to burn a Koran tomorrow on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, was a high school classmate of Rush Limbaugh. The Cape Central High School (Missouri) website has the perhaps unsurprising coincidence front and center, noting: “Rush Limbaugh USED to be Cape Girardeau’s most prominent export. One of his [...]
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